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Title: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: dc10bass on November 24, 2009, 12:07:50 PM

Group...

What material did Gibson use for the nut on early 60's EB-3s?
Bone? Phenolic? ...?

Also, was the nut thicker than your standard nut?
...thicker than a Thunderbird nut? (it seems to look that way in pictures)

Thanks!!!
Curt

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: godofthunder on November 24, 2009, 02:03:47 PM

 I do not know the material(might be bone, color seems to consistent though) but they have a almost 1/4 round profile, not the thin rectangular profile you see on say a Fender.

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: Dave W on November 24, 2009, 02:11:33 PM

I think they're bleached bone.

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: Bionic-Joe on November 24, 2009, 02:51:54 PM

I know that it was a resin impregnated fabric.

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: dc10bass on November 24, 2009, 03:01:32 PM

Quote from: Bionic-Joe on November 24, 2009, 02:51:54 PM

I know that it was a resin impregnated fabric.

Does anyone currently sell it?

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: Dave W on November 24, 2009, 06:36:43 PM

I found this (http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/gibson-tone-tips-nuts/), which says the material was "nylon 6/6" on Gibson electrics in the 50s and 60s. But I don't think the big quarter round nut on the EB series is any kind of nylon.

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: EvilLordJuju on November 24, 2009, 08:37:26 PM

The 1965 parts catalogue suggests all nuts are 'molded plastic' with a list of exceptions. The only bass exception is FN-660 Formica nut, which is used on 'E. Bass'

Does this mean the EB bass, or all basses? I'm guessing the former. Do early EB basses have a nut made of something tangibly different to later basses?

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: Dave W on November 24, 2009, 11:13:25 PM

It probably just means electric bass. But again, I don't think the EB series is formica. I've never seen nut blanks that shape, maybe they were hand profiled.

As always, I could be wrong.

Title: Re: QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3
Post by: uwe on November 25, 2009, 06:25:10 AM

My early to middle sixties and fifties EBs as well as the early to middle sixties TBs all have these nuts made of glistening, miilky, for lack of a better word "tooth-like" material and those nuts are all thinner than the nuts of my late sixties and seventies Gibson basses.